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Show FREIGHT CARS RUSHED WEST I One Thousand 'Empties' a Day Wil Be Sent Through Chicago WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Railroads are making every effort to move empty freight cars Into western t rritory and to relieve car nhortuge particularly 111 the northwi'sr. aid a b-tter s nt Tuesday Tues-day to Cra Stiver, Washington representative repre-sentative of the American Kami Bu-i-eau federation by Donald D Conn in behalf of the ear service division of the American Railway association. Be- , Kinning I : i .-1 Saturday iru'til. Mr Conn aald the car service division arranged ( for the movement into the west, tl rough Hie Chicago gateways alone o! l uou empty cars per day. from the eastern roads. TWO 81 RJJKES PELT. t the same time, Mr. Conn's lotto) asserted, the double strike of the summer sum-mer ln the railroad Hiuns and in tin-coal tin-coal mines threw extraordinary burdens bur-dens upon the railroads Incident to tho handling of bulky coal shipments late ln the season, and to the upbuilding upbuild-ing of deteriorated equipment. While conoeding that tho northwestern agri-I agri-I cultural products were requiring more I transportation facilities. Mr. Conn xnldl that in that territory the roads durinK October actually carried lo per i enl , more grain and grain products than they carried In the morith of i92i When no industrial disturbances had, to be met. EMBARGO NOl POSSIBLE. The farm bureau federation has Fuggesled that the movement of Cart-j adian grain through the United BtatOS le cmbarRoed. but the step lias not been taken by the Interstate tsem-merce tsem-merce commission or the railroads be-1 cause. Mr. Conn asserted, "there Is iio channel open for legally netting up lof a barrier." The best possible method, ho held, wan tho speeding UP of transportation and the crowding of empty cars from east CD wet which, he asserted, was riow iieing d,one by the car service division, hut could nol have been done at any earlier date I jbecauso of eastern traffic demands I |